Bill Text: NY S01803 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Establishes the pandemic preparedness task force comprised of eighteen members; prepares an influenza pandemic plan; provides that they shall meet at least six times per year; provides the members shall not receive compensation but are allowed actual and necessary expenses; requires such task force shall report to the governor and the legislature within two years.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-11 - PRINT NUMBER 1803A [S01803 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S01803-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         1803--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 14, 2015
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen. LAVALLE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Securi-
          ty and Military Affairs -- recommitted to the Committee  on  Veterans,
          Homeland  Security and Military Affairs in accordance with Senate Rule
          6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted  as
          amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to establishing a pandem-
          ic preparedness task force
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 719 to
     2  read as follows:
     3    § 719. Pandemic preparedness task force. 1.  There  is  hereby  estab-
     4  lished  in  the office of homeland security a pandemic preparedness task
     5  force to be composed of eighteen members who shall be appointed  in  the
     6  following manner: three shall be appointed by the temporary president of
     7  the senate; two shall be appointed by the minority leader of the senate;
     8  three  shall  be  appointed by the speaker of the assembly; two shall be
     9  appointed by the minority leader of the assembly;  and  eight  shall  be
    10  appointed  by the governor. The governor shall designate the chairperson
    11  of the task force. The members of the task force shall be representative
    12  of state government, the  public  health  field,  health  care  services
    13  providers,   emergency  response  organizations  and  agriculture.  Such
    14  appointing officials shall either replace or reappoint  the  members  of
    15  such  committee  for three year terms, according to the following sched-
    16  ule:
    17    (a) Effective January first, two thousand nineteen: any three original
    18  appointees of the governor, one  original  appointee  of  the  temporary
    19  president  of  the  senate, one original appointee of the speaker of the
    20  assembly and one original  appointee  of  the  minority  leader  of  the
    21  senate;
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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